Like all species, humans change our environments to get food.Foodgetting is the dimension of human history that links us directly and indirectly with all other beings. Inescapably and at once both historical and natural, human foodgetting can be understood both as natural history and as historical nature. It implicates our species being in the evolving web of life. In its complex embodied, encultured and social relations, human nature evolves. To embrace that recognition requires thorough revision of inherited ideas. I draw on specific contributions among many thinkers engaged in this project by following a foodgetting thread through several literatures: (1) approaches to reconnecting natural with social sciences of human nature; (2) a “deep history” (Shryock and Smail 2011) of agriculture, which connects prehistory to written history, by Mazoyer and Roudart (1997, 2006), and its limits; (3) ecological resilience theory, and its model of panarchy, which resonates with emergence, dissolution, and reconstellation of food regimes and food regime transitions. This sets the stage for (4) clarifying different paths taken by food regime analysts, including my differences with co‐founder Philip McMichael. (5) I conclude by suggesting an approach to intentional change of human institutions centred on emergence, and (6) an example of emerging ways of organising territory centred on foodgetting.